Pavel Romistrov

Pavel Romistrov (6 July 1901-6 April 1982) was a Chief Marshal of the Red Army of the Soviet Union who fought in the Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War, and World War II.

Biography
Pavel Romistrov was born on 6 July 1901 in Skovorovo in the Russian Empire (present-day Selizharovsky District, Tver Oblast, Russia). Romistrov served in the Red Army after 1919, aiding in the quelling of the Kronstadt Revolt by sailors and fighting against newly-independent Poland. In 1941 he was made the chief-of-staff of the Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps at the start of World War II and commanded the 5th Guards Tank Army at the Battle of Kursk against Nazi Germany. His victory at Kursk was vital to the Allied victory on the Eastern Front, but he was assigned to become the commander of Soviet armored troops after his unit suffered heavy losses during the offensive on Minsk during Operation Bagration in 1944. After the end of the war in 1945, he commanded the mechanized Soviet troops of the Red Army in East Germany, and was made the Chief Marshal of Armored Troops on 28 April 1962. He died on 6 April 1982, almost twenty years later.